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Bugging bugs: Learning to speak microbe
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 22:36)
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Far from being silent loners, bacteria are little chatterboxes? when they're not snooping on us. Perhaps we should brush up our conversational skills
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For a long life, smile like you mean it
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 22:26)
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Players with honest grins lived an average of seven years longer than players who didn't smile and five years longer than those who faked it
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For smaller chips, borrow 18th-century tricks
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 18:00)
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It's getting harder and harder to shrink silicon chips ever smaller– a solution might be to return to the roots of lithographic printing
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New DNA technique gives names to the unknown dead
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 17:00)
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More DNA can be extracted from fragments of bone or tooth, so that badly damaged victims of war or shipwrecks can be identified
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Which climate changes can be blamed on humans?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 9:01)
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Human "fingerprints" have been detected on all sorts of aspects of the climate, from rainfall to the salt content of the oceans, says Michael Marshall
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Methane bubbling out of Arctic Ocean - but is it new?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 4:00)
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An expanse of seabed is leaking the greenhouse gas into the air, rekindling fears that global warming might unlock billions of tonnes of the stuff
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Today on New Scientist: 4 March 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 3:00)
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All today's stories from newscientist.com at a glance, including: the third nuclear option, seven possible theories of everything, and a DIY space station
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Knowing the mind of God: Seven theories of everything
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 0:33)
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We still don't have a theory that describes the fundamental nature of the universe, but there are plenty of candidates
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Shields down! Earth's mag field may drop in a flash
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 0:21)
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Even our best models would fail to predict whether Earth's magnetic field will flip, exposing us to space radiation
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Have they fixed the broken STFC?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-4 23:15)
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The beleaguered Science and Technology Funding Council is being given a helping hand by the government: will it be enough?
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